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Since swearing in a new Member is a purely ministerial duty, and under Powell v. McCormack (1969) the House has no power to deny an elected member his or her seat, mandamus should be available from any judge having jurisdiction (with traditional enforcement power).
The rule that the Speaker of the House has sole discretion as to when members of Congress are sworn-in to office is obviously flawed AF.

Once election results are recognized and certified, any active judge should be allowed to swear representatives into office.
Time will likely prove Frog v ICE of Portland 2025 as immortal an image as Tank Man of Tiananmen 1989:
This should be Time Magazine’s 2025 Photo of the Year:
Houston yesterday on the way to City Hall:
Policy discussion about discrimination is fair. Do we allow discrimination in driver's license issuance on the basis of recent DUI or vehicular homicide? Pretending everyone is treated the same when they're not (are you allowed to marry your college sweetheart?) is, as you say, a species of madness.
They don't have any real excuses, they just pick vocabulary they think their base will eat without inquiring whether the label has anything to do with the package's contents.

Rat isn't beef.
Remember, the Floyd murder could only be completed because armed government employees sworn to uphold the law prevented his rescue from his murderers – repeatedly.

Threatening rescuers is key to ensuring the intended harm reaches its full potential.
"Federal immigration enforcement agents allegedly interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in south Portland, as first reported Monday in Willamette Week." www.yahoo.com/news/article...
ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester
Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.
www.yahoo.com
A career investigator in the making.

I doff my hat to your budding detective.

Good luck with the crab recovery!
Apparently the class pet hermit crab has been stolen, a fact I learned when the 7 y/o presented me with a written list of suspects and quotes from each, all delivered to me in a Colombo-style monologue
Montessori classrooms are full of self-directed individuals benefiting from peer-to-peer instruction, learning effective independence under adult supervision. This is a _fantastic_ workplace environment. Suits require damages. That's why frathouse abuse is actionable and uplifting support is not.
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Rosie the Ribbiter by Canadian artist Jo Blakely (@[email protected]).
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Karoline Leavitt smearing protesters as terrorists is bargain bin fascism. The White House sells swastika bait while whining cancel culture to hide their shutdown faceplant. Release the Epstein files.
If you wondered whether ICE members had respect for the law and meant to uphold it, or else despised it but found it convenient cover to bully anyone they considered different, look at the evidence. Here's one data point for you:
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
Who is paying these thugs to beat our neighbors?
Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.
"morally opposed" to adult strangers who don't want to sleep with you being happy together…
…where does one even start?
My opponent is “morally opposed” to same-sex marriage — and during our debate, she even said that opposing same-sex marriage is “not discrimination.”

These views aren’t just wrong, they’re out of touch — and Virginians deserve so much better.
I'm unaware of anyone teaching children how the victory against slavery in the Civil War was undercut by capitulation in the postwar era to hooded terrorists. Read Hall v DeCuir. The Supreme Court made sure the victims of racism could not get help from their own states and juries OR federal power.
I think one of the things that keeps hitting me hard about *waves hands* is the realization of how little my high school in Omaha in the 90s taught me about Reconstruction. Like, I'm pretty sure it was literally just called "the period after the Civil War when things started to settle down."
One thing that academics from the economics discipline miss is the wealth of knowledge in the public health and management fields on topics like (a) the impact of alignment of leadership with mission, and (b) an organization's unity of mission. It's not all about money. People matter, materially.
Uninteresting downballot offices can have enormous impact on the infrastructure your community needs and the cost you are required to pay to expand it for strangers who don't invest in your community.

If you're from Georgia, this is particularly timely:
The idea that private ownership leads to investment, reliability, or efficiency is contradicted both by ERCOT and the history of telecom firms in Central America.
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Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects
If we want hard work and outstanding ideas rewarded, we need very different policy than currently governs markets.

And I'm here to tell you that the markets are adversely affected by anticompetitive forces and that altering them has the power to change the way people live and work.
I have worked hard as hell for almost nothing, and been made independently wealthy while I was asleep. Becoming wealthy isn't about working hard. You can work infinitely hard and make no money at all and even lose money. Our system does not reward hard work, and it does not reward outstanding ideas.
The thing that's made me financially independent has been understanding the problems of a marketplace distorted by anticompetitive forces well enough to make life-altering money investing in things that had the power to change the way people worked and lived.
The success I've had hasn't been from selling lots of hours or for selling hours at rates I'd never have believed as a child, though I would never as a child have believed the rates people will pay for the hours I work as a self-employed professional.